The last buildings occupied by Islamic State militants in Sirte have fallen into hands of Libyan fighters on Tuesday, officials said, as anti-IS fighters celebrated in the streets of the final IS stronghold in Libya. Ahmed Hadiya, the head of the media center for ...

As Libyan fighters make their final push to dislodge Islamic State militants from their last bastion in Libya, female suicide bombers, including one who appeared to be carrying a baby, were among the group’s last desperate attempts to slow down the fall of the ...

Two women died of hypothermia during an operation to rescue more than 730 migrants off the Libyan coast, the Italian coast guard and medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Sunday. The women were found unconscious in a large dinghy in the Mediterranean that ...

Pro-government forces in Libya have detained at least eight Islamic State group fighters trying to swim to freedom out of their embattled former coastal bastion of Sirte, the loyalists said. On Sunday, forces supporting the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) “thwarted the escape ...

Islamic State group jihadis are making a “last stand” in their former Libyan stronghold of Sirte, where they now control only around two blocks, the Pentagon said Thursday. The IS group had held all of the Mediterranean port city as recently as early this ...

Heavily armed militias clashed in neighborhoods across the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Thursday, leaving at least eight fighters dead, according to the state-run Lana news agency. Tanks and convoys of militiamen streamed into the streets, and witnesses reported gunfire in southern, central, and ...

Women migrants fleeing wars, political instability and poverty are taking contraceptives in the expectation of being raped but are so desperate they still embark on the journey, a human rights group said on Wednesday. Women and girls who risk sexual violence as they flee ...

At least eight people were confirmed dead Tuesday and many more were missing after a new series of boat tragedies left Italy on the verge of a record year for migrant arrivals. Confirming the latest fatalities in what is already a record year for ...

Activists and medics say tribal clashes that erupted in southern Libya after three young men turned a pet monkey loose on a high school girl have killed at least 20 people. The girl’s family sought revenge after the monkey scratched and bit her last ...

A hundred migrants were feared drowned Thursday after yet another migrant shipwreck off the Libyan coast, raising the number of those missing feared drowned this week to 340. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said around 100 people were believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean ...

Around 100 people were missing, feared drowned, in the Mediterranean on Tuesday after a migrant dinghy capsized off Libya, according to rescue teams frantically searching for survivors in darkness and rough seas. German NGO Jugend Rettet, whose boat was at the scene, said 23 ...

Libya’s coast guard said it rescued 115 migrants on Sunday who had been aboard a rubber boat that broke down off Tripoli, and that one migrant had drowned. The migrants “were on a rubber boat that broke down northwest of Khoms,” some 100 km ...